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  • If you are curious look up the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther and his 99 Theses.

    I'm paraphrasing and my thoughts on what I experienced this but it came down more to the idea that Catholics worship the pope and the saints more than god and jesus. If you were the leader of a nation that called themselves Catholic you could find the Pope telling you what to do when it came to war and if you declared war on another Catholic country the Pope could tell you to stop or to declare peace. To not do so was in danger of having all other Catholic nations declare war.

    Not to mention the many saints you are required to pray to, Purgatory and praying for the dead, all of the rituals, services in Latin, worship of the virgin mother, the schism that split the church between two Popes who excommunicated each other, etc.

    Protestantism did away with all of that. No single leader, the ability to create different sects that didn't make you an apostate of the church, etc. Now don't get me wrong even the same sect don't always believe the exact same things and it can get pretty nit-picky, but Protestantisn can change with the times more easily than Catholicism can.

    The goal was to make less of a ritual cult like Catholicism had become, and more of a focus on the meaning of the the actions of jesus, being able to actually get to heaven without all of the pomp and circumstance that really meant nothing, and all that crap.

    The worry is the President would be more loyal to the other Catholics than the rest of the nation and would be bound by cult rules than the will of the people.

    Ironically enough right now it's the Catholic President trying to stop rights from being taken away while there are both Protestants and Catholics in the Supreme Court and other facets of the government that are working so hard to do the opposite.

  • If cable, cell, ISPs and companies of that ilk are any hint, we'll have to pay the upcharge on the items themselves, all of the food delivery company's fees and surcharges, and then get double-dipped from the driverless car company for those same fees. They'll also tack on a fee to rent the car while it drives to our homes, another fee for each second it sits waiting for us to go grab the food, a fee for each second of cloud computing time as it updates to the network, a fee for the electricity it uses, and as part of the Eula, we must top off the car's batteries from our own charging stations thereby incurring that cost as well.

  • The Fundamentalist Christian hijacking of the Republican party started over 50 years ago, but it wasn't until Alzheimer's-ridden Ronald Reagan got into office that it was given the green light by a President.

  • I laugh every time a right-wing nutjob gets all high and mighty about Biden for "his Alzheimers". Mention to them that their darling Reagan actually had Alzeimers his entire second term and watch them foam at the mouth. They lose their smooth minds.

  • Cocoa plant yields were talked about briefly in an episode of the podcast Behind the Bastards. According to episode 89 about Bjorn Lomborg and climate change there is a fly that pollenates cocoa plants and due to climate change this fly's numbers are dwindling.

  • AI images are like snapshots into your dreams and the part of your brain that processes written language is off. The words are there and they look familiar but are there only for the sake of building the scene.

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  • Shit I have so many tabs open. Bookmarking is essentially the same as closing them because I'll never find them when I want them let alone remember I bookmarked them. Then I'll head to a search engine to relentlessly try and remember the term I searched for in the first place but not see any visited links or the visited links were the non-helpful sites and the one I want is gone.

    After all that I'll just give up and some weeks later find the bookmark I was looking while looking for another non-related bookmark.